RICHMOND — Governor Timothy Kaine today announced that Carolina Profile Design Corp., a lithographic commercial printing company, will invest $3 million to expand in Grayson County, creating 55 jobs. The company will add a metal machining process to its existing operations. Virginia successfully competed with Illinois, North Carolina and Pennsylvania for the project.

ROANOKE — One man accused of hauling 313 pounds of marijuana to an Interstate 77 exit in Carroll County has been sentenced to five years for his role in the incident, and a second suspect has pleaded guilty.

Two men, Mario Martinez-Casillas and Ramiro Esparza-Ibanez, had been named in a three-count federal indictment on charges that stemmed from the Carroll Sheriff's Office investigation.

HILLSVILLE — After seeing the proposed increases in the Carroll Public Service Authority's rates, Hillsville officials wondered why the county found the town's prices so unaffordable back when they considered combining forces on public utilities.

After Hillsville built a sewage treatment plant to process wastewater from both the town and the county and after years of negotiation, Carroll County decided to expand the amount of wastewater it sends to Galax for treatment, much to the consternation of town officials.

HILLSVILLE — Details remain to be ironed out in the public sewer cooperation between Galax and Carroll County, as the Woodlawn sewer system gets ready to come online.

After Hillsville built a sewage treatment plant to process wastewater from both the town and the county, Carroll County decided instead to expand the amount of wastewater it sends to Galax for treatment, much to the consternation of town officials.

LAMBSBURG — The clean up crew working to dispose of acid found at a former Old Pipers Gap Road business has now removed lead from the ground.

Carroll County declared a local emergency in early October as the Environmental Protection Agency started cleaning up the acid at the Lambsburg site where workers once used acid to deconstruct computers and reclaim the gold inside.

They found the acid in more than 300 barrels, which the crews offloaded into tanks to remove it from the property.

Twin County Regional Hospital will soon provide a higher level of emergency stroke and critical neurology care — 24 hours a day, 365 days a year — as part of a new teleneurology medicine program announced Monday in conjunction with Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C.

Officials said Monday that TCRH will hold kickoff meetings next month to possibly launch the program in December. TCRH should receive the teleneurology equipment by mid-November.